Maximum distance between racks?

[Jnich77]

Hello, I am thinking of putting some kind of cradles on my camper to hold two kayaks. I have a "jumping jack" camper, and it has rails ad both ends.. about 8' apart. I was wondering if this is too far apart to support a 12-14 foot Kayak?

I will probably take off the hoops holding up the back of the john boat so they are not causing so much drag. Going over it in my head it looks like I can have two kayaks on top, and still have plenty of room in between for gear and coolers.

I was also curious about the racks that hold them on there side, any advantages other than freeing up more storage space around the boats? The only time I have hauled kayaks is on a home made rack on a utility trailer, I am really trying to do this in a less ghetto fashion...lol





Btw: The kayaks will be of the sit on top plastic variety if that makes a difference. This is the last time I hauled kayaks to the keys, seems to work great. The supports were 8' part. Pulled it behind a 2006 Jetta TDI, got 36 MPG doing 75-80...lol